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1. "So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence." ~ Satish Kumar

2. "This gives us more time to attend the inner need." ~ Satish Kumar

3. "With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land." ~ Satish Kumar

4. "It became extremely important that we go and see the four heads of the governments, and the message was delivered, with the tea packets, to all these heads." ~ Satish Kumar

5. "One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings." ~ Satish Kumar

6. "That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food." ~ Satish Kumar

7. "We live under the power of Modern Consciousness, which means that we are obsessed with progress. Wherever you are is not good enough. We always want to achieve something, rather than experience something. The opposite of this is Spiritual Consciousness. By that I mean you find enchantment in every action you do, rather in just the results of your action. Spiritual Consciousness is not a particular religion but a way of being." ~ Satish Kumar

8. "Whatever lessens suffering in yourself and others, that is right. Whatever increases suffering, that is wrong. The answer is within you. When you are free of pride and prejudice, when you are calm and attentive, a light will shine within you. Through meditation and through being mindful you will find your own knowledge of rightness. You will be your own light." ~ Satish Kumar

9. "So it is with the mind, Nandini. Allow it to be in balance. Avoid extremes: the middle way is better. Neither force the mind too hard into concentration nor let it wander aimlessly. Meditation is to pay attention, to be aware of your breathing, your posture, your feelings, your perceptions, your thoughts, and all that passes through your mind and the mind itself; whatever is going on within you and between you and the universe. Meditation is not just sitting for an hour here or an hour there; meditation is a way of life. It is practiced all the time. There is no separation between meditation and everyday living. When you have ceased to be bound by the past or by the future, when you are fully present in the here and now, then it is meditation." ~ Satish Kumar

10. "If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars." ~ Satish Kumar

11. "If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak." ~ Satish Kumar

12. "I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey." ~ Satish Kumar

13. "Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food." ~ Satish Kumar

14. "Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery." ~ Satish Kumar

15. "I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother." ~ Satish Kumar

16. "Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come only when one is able to forgive even those who have committed barbaric acts. If Angulimala is capable of renouncing violence, then tell me, your Majesty: is your civilized society also capable of being truly civilized and renouncing violence?" ~ Satish Kumar

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